Because Ed asked what music we use in class, and because this is the catchiest song this side of “Call Me Maybe,” and because this guy does a great job representing our profession, I thought I’d give you this “Friday Funny” on Wednesday.
And for those of us who teach on Mondays and Wednesday, and have graduate students manage sections on the days afterward, Happy Friday!
In your editorial published in the New York Times today you wrote that “it was not only Protestants who opposed sacred imagery. In the Southwest, Pueblo Indians who waged war against Spanish colonizers not only burned and dismembered some crucifixes, but even defecated on them.”
To suggest that the Pueblo Indians had some sort of ideological quarrel with the invaders is pure silliness.
The Pueblo people were not “opposing sacred imagery.” In fact they themselves have a rich tradition of saced imagery. They were fighting the Spanish who respected neither the humanity of the Pueblo Indians nor their rich religious tradition; were trying to enslave them; and committed the most hideous atrocities against the native peoples in the name of Christ.
If a Zuni took a dump on a crucifix it wasn’t because he had a theological opposition to graven images — it was to take power away from the oppressor who sought to enslave and convert him.
Claudia Chapman
Dear Ms. Chapman,
Thanks for your contribution. What music do you use when teaching US history?
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